Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...help poor young men to get an education at Harvard, it is singular that some provision has not been made to provide them with text books. The money spent for books is quite a large item in the college expenses of a poor young man, but there are rich students, on the other hand, who throw away many of their old books, or have them in their rooms when they graduate. If an appeal were made, and a person appointed to take charge of the matter, hundreds of discarded books would gladly be given to the cause. The books thus...
...only regular student at the school has been Thomas Hooper Eckfeldt, A. B. (Wesleyan, 1882). His work will be a thesis on the Temple of Asklepios at Epidaurus. The small attendance at the school is due to the fact that no scholarships have, as yet, been founded, and all students are compelled to support themselves...
...connection with the required work of the college is the change in the time at which the junior and senior theses are due. The thesis is due a week earlier from both juniors and seniors. This is, upon the whole, a change for the better, as it enables the student to accomplish earlier that portion of his required work which is always more or less a hindrance to his regular work in the college courses. The final work in forensics is in itself well calculated to occupy his leisure during the spring months. The further apart duties of this nature...
...following is copied from a student's notes of one of Prof. Norton's recent lectures, - "Moral sentiment is of very slow growth. A few days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service...
...used as a gathering place for the men where they smoke, gossip and listen to music by some of their number. Nothing goes on in or out of the university that is not immediately made known at the Nations. They take the place of the college paper in the student's daily life. Connected also with the clubs are library rooms and libraries, and various other rooms devoted to social purposes. The size and importance of the libraries depend, as does the building, on the wealth of the Nation, some of them containing several thousand volumes...